Above all, this unity comes about because of some quality within. And it is here that the idea of the pervasive I, in every living center, begins to tell us something.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• If each living center is but a reflection of a single unity, has the same origin in its being, then the whole is animated by this same being behind the scenes—and we experience the same living fire in every part.claim0.833
  The mechanism by which the I manifests: all centers sharing the same ontological origin produce a unified living fire.
• The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.claim0.820
  True unity is not about conventional beauty but about a raw, messy, everyday reality that resonates deeply.
• Because it is so deeply connected its parts to one another, itself to its surroundings, it creates the sensation that nothing is separate, that everything is in harmony.claim0.811
  The causal claim that deep connectedness creates the sensation of universal harmony.
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.804
• "Belonging comes about directly as a result of living process. That is simply because all living process does two things. It pays attention to the centers which exist, and creates new centers, which enhance them and embellish them."quote0.803
  A concise formulation of the causal link between living process and belonging.
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.803
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.801
  The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
• Unity ties everything together—including joy, happiness and laughter, but also including loss, death, and betrayal.claim0.801
  Core assertion that true unity necessarily encompasses all of life's experiences, thus contains inherent sadness.